disdainful - Story 28165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band struck up a slow song, and couples began to sway on the dance floor. She watched from the corner, gripping her clutch so tightly her knuckles ached. Then, he was there, standing directly in front of her.

He raised an eyebrow, a flicker of amusement in his eyes. "Dancing, Olivia?"

She forced a smile. “Not particularly.” Her gaze drifted past him, toward the open doors leading outside.

He shrugged, as if understanding. "Right. Well, it's nice to see you."

"You too, David," she managed, before turning and heading towards the garden, escaping any further conversation.

Emotion: disdainful

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -0.31 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.79

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion disdainful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 disdainful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the disdainful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the disdainful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.419
`l`	0.404
`S`	0.387
`T`	0.282
`I`	0.257

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.335
`unexpectedly`	-0.285
`Suddenly`	-0.246
`previously`	-0.245
`until`	-0.242